kthread_should_stop(9)

✨ kthread_should_stop(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for kthread_should_stop(9) — yes the function name and the manual name are the same, that's just how the kernel rolls 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kthread_should_stop — should this kthread return now?

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bool kthread_should_stop (void );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments. nothing. nada. she takes zero input and still serves 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: when someone calls kthread_stop on your kthread, your kthread gets woken up, and then this little function — kthread_should_stop — will return true. 🫶

and when it returns true, that's your sign, bestie: you should return. like, wrap it up, exit the loop, go home. and no cap, your return value gets passed through to kthread_stop. so whatever you hand back actually matters, iykyk 👑

fr fr — this is the polite knock on the door. hear it, and leave. don't be that thread.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

kernel file ./kernel/kthread.c — and literally the whole kthread cinematic universe, in this exact order 💀✨

• kthread_should_park(9)
• kthread_freezable_should_stop(9)
• kthread_func(9)
• kthread_data(9)
• kthread_probe_data(9)
• kthread_complete_and_exit(9)
• kthread_create_on_node(9)
• kthread_bind(9)
• kthread_create_on_cpu(9)
• kthread_unpark(9)
• kthread_park(9)
• kthread_stop(9)
• kthread_stop_put(9)
• kthread_affine_preferred(9)
• kthreads_update_housekeeping(9)
• kthread_worker_fn(9)
• kthread_create_worker_on_node(9)
• kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(9)
• kthread_queue_work(9)
• kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn(9)
• kthread_queue_delayed_work(9)
• kthread_flush_work(9)
• kthread_mod_delayed_work(9)
• kthread_cancel_work_sync(9)
• kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync(9)
• kthread_flush_worker(9)
• kthread_destroy_worker(9)
• kthread_use_mm(9)
• kthread_unuse_mm(9)
• kthread_associate_blkcg(9)
• kthread_blkcg(9)

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sign-off bestie: this page comes from ./kernel, dated October 2026 — slay, see you in the next reboot 🎀⭐ 🧚